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The presumption of innocence is among the sacred precepts encoded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.”
It’s also a cardinal principle of U.S. justice. Yet with...

Yesterday the court removed securities-fraud case Leidos, Inc. v. Indiana Public Retirement System from the November argument calendar. At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that the move came “after the two sides told the justices they are near a settlement,” and that the case had “asked...

As everyone knows, Richard Thaler has won the Nobel Prize in economics. Thaler’s prize was mainly for behavioral economics, which built upon the work of the earlier nobel laureate Daniel Kanneman.
This work has been controversial. Many rational choice economists have strongly criticized it and some...

Jay Knight
Will Lay
In March 2015, the SEC released its final rules implementing the provision of the JOBS Act to try to facilitate small companies’ access to capital and to provide new investors with new investment choices, in the form of Regulation A+. In the following...

The petition of the day is:
Dawson v. Steager
17-419
Issue: Whether the Supreme Court’s precedent and the doctrine of intergovernmental tax immunity bar states from exempting groups of state retirees from state income tax while discriminating against similarly situated federal retirees based on the source of their...

Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 20. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)
Last week, President Trump tweeted:
With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License?...

The arrest of Michael Christopher Estes, the man accused of planting a homemade bomb at the Asheville, N.C., Regional Airport this month, was quick. The news media weren’t so quick to report on it, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Authorities found what appeared to...

The Farmer letters are best understood when read in conjunction with Dickinson’s 1764 speech and his 1774 “Essay on the Constitutional Power of Great-Britain Over the Colonies in America.” The latter tract elaborated The Farmer’s comments about government. This discussion, although drawing principally on The...

The FBI is warning of a scam involving an English-language extortion call from Mexico to U.S. victims with no connections or ties to Mexico, the Indianapolis Star reports. The call asserts that a loved one is in danger, as a means to scam ransom money...

Most speech is protected against criminal punishment, or civil liability; but some such otherwise protected speech can still lead to administrative discipline from public K-12 schools:
Speech may lead to discipline because it seriously risks material disruption of school work (that’s the Tinker exception).
It may lead...